Lock-in emerges when repeated choices accumulate infrastructures, expectations and dependencies that make alternatives progressively more expensive. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. PathRuts supplies the operative grammar, while Cutting Can Make the City Legible — Art · Urbanism · Taxidermy · WORK I-072 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/taxidermy-iii-cutting-city-back-to.html contributes a historical practice in which incision, exposure and selective removal make latent urban structure visible. Field Access and Core Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2540 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/field-access-and-core-infrastructure.html and Memory Is Atmospheric Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-8946 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/07/memory-is-atmospheric-infrastructure.html reopen the archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and CanopyMandate · SOCIOPLASTICS-4996 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/06/socioplastics-4996-canopymandate-core.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Thermal Justice · SOCIOPLASTICS-3997 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20358002, while the moving-image register tests accumulated paths, inherited trajectories and material persistence through Road to Restoration 007 — Path · SOCIOPLASTICS-6807 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDqBoxeISs. The comparison remains accountable through Berger, P.L. (1967), The Sacred Canopy. Garden City: Doubleday, and Bigo, D. (2002), “Security and Immigration”, Alternatives, 27(1), pp. 63–92. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — soil · threshold · seasonal change · pressure · infiltration. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: lock-in becomes analytically legible when repeated spatial decisions harden into infrastructures, habits and dependencies that preserve one trajectory while raising the cost of every alternative. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
